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I know it's been a sparse year of posting content. If you want to follow me on a more regular basis, check out my twitter and instagram accounts. If you're looking for a more professional relationship, I'm also available on LinkedIn. I also have a couple side projects you can... read more →

Just a quick git tip I found that has been really useful in my git-management workflow. If you want to remove all local branches except master (useful when following gitflow-like conventions and you have a lot of feature branches), run this command: git branch | grep -v "master" | xargs... read more →

I was contacted a couple weeks ago by the Ferris State Torch advisor, Steven Fox, with the news that they'd be naming one of the Ferris State Torch awards after me. They had a student, Keith, that was deserving of an award but they didn't quite have something that fit... read more →

For the past year, I have been assisting the Worship Team at my church with logistics, scheduling, and team management. In essence, I'm an interim-band director as we are currently without a dedicated Worship Leader or Worship Pastor. For most services, and most special events, we can pull a full... read more →

Just a quick tip if you're running into issues with SMB shares in macOS High Sierra. I was running into issues with my HP All-in-One Printer/Scanner and saving files to a network share on macOS. Apparently HP does not have SMB up-to-date in their firmware, so if you have strict... read more →

This past summer I had the pleasure of presenting at That Conference 2017 with my talk titled Gulp, Grunt, Webpack: What's a Dev to Choose?. In my session, I demonstrated two of the most popular JavaScript task runners, Grunt and Gulp, being used with two of the most popular bundling systems,... read more →

I've been pretty quiet on the blog lately. It's not that I haven't been doing anything blog-worthy, but I've been creating content in other places! With that in mind, I'd like to announce a new podcast: The Average Enthusiasts. (more…)

Thanks to anyone that came out to watch my presentation at That Conference. If you're looking for slides, source, or other materials, you can find all of those on GitHub. The slides can also be viewed on GitHub Pages. (more…)

Last month I had the opportunity to head out to Seattle, WA for the Microsoft Build 2017 Conference. It was an amazing experience to get out to the West Coast and experience another side of the US, in addition to the amazing conference. (more…)

Recently my Doxie Go's battery has been… acting up; essentially, it won't charge over USB anymore. I've had the scanner now for a few years, so it's not terribly surprising that the internal battery may be starting to act up; however, I've been really pleased with the Doxie Go and... read more →